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> Oh yes they do You can nutpick to find people saying anything, of course. Show me someone in a position of power saying that. I think they closest you'll fi
by _jal 4y ago
> Oh yes they do
You can nutpick to find people saying anything, of course.
Show me someone in a position of power saying that. I think they closest you'll find is someone like AOC, who has gone nowhere near that.
> The AFL-CIO looks (or at least looked) like the same thing, but for unions.
The AFL-CIO has been in decline for several decades. If you want to tar, say, the Amazon efforts with things the AFL-CIO did in the 60s, you're just making my point for me.
- AnimalMuppet 4y ago> nutpick I don't know whether that was a typo or deliberate, but it's beautiful. I'm stealing it. Yes, you absolutely can find a nut who will say anything - even several nuts. Absolutely. But in this case, I think it's a bit stronger than that. I see it too often. It could be just a few loudmouths saying the same thing over and over, but to me it feels more like, say, 5% of HN users actually believe that. True, that's far less than the number who believe "all unions are evil", but it still seems to me to be enough people to be significant. > If you want to tar, say, the Amazon efforts with things the AFL-CIO did in the 60s, you're just making my point for me. Well, I didn't want to do that, so don't put that on me. All I wanted to say is that, as corporations can collude (or at least appear to), so can unions, and we have historical examples of it happening - and, unlike corporate collusion, happening formally and in the open.